Where: Wyoming (44.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 84.9° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. L. Wing, J. Alroy, and L. J. Hickey. 1995. Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 115:117-155 [S. Wing/H. Sims/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11359: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 13.08.2001, edited by John Burns
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Debeya | |
Debeya "sp.1" Miquel 1853 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ginkgo adiantoides Unger 1845 ginkgo | |
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951 dawn redwood | |
Angiospermae | |
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae
"Dicotyledonae "LJH n.sp.XXI"" = Dicotyledoneae | |
aff. Alismataceae "sp.1" Ventenat 1799 | |
Cercidiphyllum genetrix Newberry 1868 katsura | |
Platanus raynoldsii Newberry 1868 plane tree |